A program that checks your Hard Drives for Reliablitiy

[Beavis]

is it possible that this program could cause your hard drive to crash ??

just a question. im not implying anything !

[MTUSUPPORT]

Beavis,
I don't think that is possible. I have it loaded on my systems to test it. It seems to read the Performance of the drive and monitors the drives Temperatures, and from this data I think it comes up with how reliable the drive is. But as to making a HD fail, I don't think it would be possible for it to cause a hardware failure.

It seems pretty neat, and if it does work, this is awesome.

Bdayton, wow that is pretty scary that it was that correct. I wasn't sure if it would be worth it or not, but I guess it is.

[bdayton]

Originally Posted by Beavis

is it possible that this program could cause your hard drive to crash ??

just a question. im not implying anything !

Aside from just beating the drive to death, (Which it did not, and java programs and windows do a pretty good job of that by themselves), I don't see how that would be possible.

[admin]

Originally Posted by Beavis

is it possible that this program could cause your hard drive to crash ??

just a question. im not implying anything !

NO!

[Azkaraoke4]

I bought a brand new laptop and downloaded this program. It seems to be a cool program but it says my hd peformance is 100% but health is only 41%. Is this bad or good. It says everything is good on the comments. Does anyone have a health status higher than 41% on a brand new drive?
Thanks

[MimiLee]

Are there any programs to test the external usb drives? I have lost 2 in the past year. Fortunately they were both backed up and under waranty but with using the usb drive for my kma files the security check would be nice.

[MTUSUPPORT]

AZKaraoke,
I have it running also. I tried it on a brand new drive and it told me 100% on the 2 I tried. Currently on my Laptop that I have been using every day for about 2-3 years it states that my drives are at about 49%.

I also wish it worked on USB drives, but it doesn't from what they state on their website.

[bdayton]

Originally Posted by Azkaraoke4

I bought a brand new laptop and downloaded this program. It seems to be a cool program but it says my hd peformance is 100% but health is only 41%. Is this bad or good. It says everything is good on the comments. Does anyone have a health status higher than 41% on a brand new drive?
Thanks

I have a 9 year-old laptop with a 4gig HD. The program reports 100%/100% on the HD. In 9 years, I've never had a problem with that HD. Even so, I'm not sure whether to believe it or not.

[George]

For anyone needing a new drive, Seagate is now offering a five year warranty on their internal drives only. They are staying with one year on the USB's.

That says something.

Have no idea how much of it is based on the reliability of internals vs USB's and how much of it based on user abuse of the USB's.

George

[bobcox- with the Lord]

IBM developed somthing a few yrs back called smart drive. it checks spindle speed and tolerances to see if your drive is going bad.not sure how well it works. but maxtor uses it. Bob

[G-Force]

This program caused me nothing but problems on my new desktop. It was falsely sensing my HD was overheating and would shut down the pc. Assuming it was correct, I let the pc cool off for an hour and restarted it. The pc immediatley shut down as soon as windows loaded and the HD program loaded. It took me a while, I had to get windows to stay open long enought to uninstall it, but I did eventually get it uninstalled. Try this program at your own risk! BTW there is nothing wrong with my HD or my pc... its less than a month old!